Dissertation HELPPP!!1

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Tigersilly

JP86 wrote: »

Hi everybody,

I'm doing my dissertation thats in for the end of feb. My tutors not very helpful and we don't seem to be communicating regardless of what I try. Time is short I am beggining to panic. My grades so far have been good (I got a first last year) so this really is paramount.

I don't understand what is paramount? That you maintain your grade? But it wouldn't be your grade if you paid someone else to do your work for you!

OP, I am in the same position as you. I actually think it's pretty normal for supervisors to be 'unhelpful'. Some tutors are worse than others, I understand that.. but really they are there just for the odd question/piece of structural advice. This dissertation is your chance to complete an independent piece of research. I don't know whether it is the case in all university libraries, but my university holds some copies of dissertations completed by past students. Perhaps have a look at those to get a feel for how to structure your dissertation.

I wouldn't consider paying anyone to write my dissertation because I trust that I can complete my own to a high standard! I'm very stubborn about my own strengths and I'd hate to think of handing in something with my name on it that bore nothing of my own style!

Best of luck with everything. I hope you find a way to get some help rather than resorting to buying anything.

mrjoet

I used a service like that once and I don't regret it at all however due to the circumstances I sleep easy.

As I don't know your circumstances well enough I am not going to advise you either way except to give you a few observations I made:

The quality of the essay wasn't great and I got the guarantees etc.
The sources weren't great quality and there weren't many of them.

I wouldn't make a spur of the moment decision based on emotion rather than logic. Instead I suggest you take a few hours to apply some critical thinking to your research topic, particularly the title, marking criteria and expectations.

If you picked up a report with that title, what would you expect to be in there? What would its strengths be? Its weaknesses? Having imagined it and evaluated it, what would you conclude? How could you make it better?

Of course the applies to your whole topic rather than your lit review. Regarding your lit review, what's the problem specifically? Ask yourself, what do you need to be able to do it yourself?

elisebutt65

As a lecturer, I would say - please, please don't even consider doing this - if you get caught it will be your whole degree down the drain!

As a student from a few years ago, i would say, please persevere!

I too did a dissertation on which there was very little literature - How the holiday industry, and packages sold, were affected by the internet. I did mine totally differently in that I reviewed the literature as I went along - in fact the whole thing was like a huge lit review - LOL, and most of it summarised to one big moan that there wasn't anyone doing any research on it as yet! I got 73%!!!

It is one of the hardest things to do as a student - the next hardest was doing my research project for my PGCE and the next one will be when I eventually do my MA. I went through weeks of going mental, not sleeping through stress and in the end I sat down and wrote out a plan of attack and sat down for a fortnight and worked through most of it.

If your tutor is not helping, is there a subject specialist tutor you can go to for advice? What was wrong with your original topic - did he say or did he just say he didn't want you to do it? Make sure your aims and objectives are feasible as there is nothing worse that working all the way through and then finding out that there is one area that you just cannot research or hypothesize about.

Look as widely as you can for researh before you narrow it down - look at the other journal sources if you can get them - Elsevier, Jisc etc. If there are financial journals that you may need, ask if your library can source you any copies - you may have to pay for these but mine was subsidised and I only had to pay £1 per copy and don't forget you can also order copies of books from the British Library if your library doesn't have them in stock. All basic stuff, I know but some of the work I've had to mark usually has made me tear out my hair!

Feel free to PM me and ask for advice.

ERICS_MUM

JP86 wrote: »

lol if you could it would be awesome.

The title stands as
The failings of Northern Rock, prevention and detection. A critical analysis of the Auditors and Directors responsibility.

(The title can be moulded to the rest)

My main problems concern the literature review. There doesn't seem to be alot on this.
But I feel like somebody else must have looked into this in depth.

The other thing that concerns me is... do I have to use numerical data? I personally don't see why this would be necesary.

My ideas for investigation:
Looking at how much other (similar) companies were charged for audit work.
The thinking behind this is, companies who pay too much are almost saying, look audit us but turn a blind eye to things that may look bad to shareholders. (don't know if i've worded it right here)

A look at the CEO's and executives at the time the collapse happened. An analysis of whether they were up to the job.

A brief look at building societies, demutualisaton, and ethical issues leading on to the governments plan to (maybe) remutualise Northern Rock.

Legislations that have been brought into place to prevent the same thing happening again.

Thanks guys

As I know absolutely nothing about dissertations I am in danger of making a fool of myself in asking these questions to clarify my understanding of your intended approach (I'm a wanna-be graduate who could not afford to go to uni!).

Are you planning to review the various reasons for NR's downfall against the "backdrop" of the legal responsibilities of auditors/company directors, the role and responsibilities of the Bank of England and the FSA, the general way in which developed financial markets work and the role of the media ?

Will you analyse the NR balance sheet to identify liquidity vs securitised deposits, use of deriviatives etc. Will this be a "compare & contrast" with another financial institution with a similar profile but that remained solvent and trading?

How have the concepts of "Lender of last resort" and "a run on the bank" played out in history ?

What conclusions do you envisage ? (e.g. mainly NR's own fault, failure of government's regulatory authorities, the world wide fianancial derivatives market etc.) What recommendations/further actions flow from your conclusion?

It might be worthwhile reading some of Robert Peston's articles. Would the Chartered Institute of Bankers website have some info ?

Sorry, I'm just indulging myself.

Linda :rolleyes::silenced::silenced:

olly300

Erics Mum I also sent the OP a PM with ideas.

It seems that the OP just wants people to help them brainstorm as they haven't found anyone in real life to help them do that.

surfsister

ERICS_MUM wrote: »

As I know absolutely nothing about dissertations I am in danger of making a fool of myself in asking these questions to clarify my understanding of your intended approach (I'm a wanna-be graduate who could not afford to go to uni!).

Are you planning to review the various reasons for NR's downfall against the "backdrop" of the legal responsibilities of auditors/company directors, the role and responsibilities of the Bank of England and the FSA, the general way in which developed financial markets work and the role of the media ?

Will you analyse the NR balance sheet to identify liquidity vs securitised deposits, use of deriviatives etc. Will this be a "compare & contrast" with another financial institution with a similar profile but that remained solvent and trading?

How have the concepts of "Lender of last resort" and "a run on the bank" played out in history ?

What conclusions do you envisage ? (e.g. mainly NR's own fault, failure of government's regulatory authorities, the world wide fianancial derivatives market etc.) What recommendations/further actions flow from your conclusion?

It might be worthwhile reading some of Robert Peston's articles. Would the Chartered Institute of Bankers website have some info ?

Sorry, I'm just indulging myself.

Linda :rolleyes::silenced::silenced:

think you are really a lecturer! lol

JS101

I would deffo steal anyting you can get. Who cares if you get someone to do the dissertation for you, it will still be your degree in your name at the end of the day. Im sure the 1st class honours and well paid / enjoyable job will more than make up for the knowledge that you had some help on your dissertation... especially if you did the rest of the degree yourself. Getting the grade could potentially equate to hundreds of thousands over the course of your career. Whats a few quid to someone to write it?!

I'm sure you would regret it if you try yourself, get no help from the lecturer and he gives you a low grade. Im sure knowledge that your an honest person wont be consolation when youre in the middle of the queue at graduation (in grade attainment order) and on half the salary in a years time.

People duck and dive all the time, its almost expected. One guy on the apprentice got caught blatantly lying on his cv and still won. Do these idiots telling you to be all moral go to bed wearing mittons with a bible every night? No.

The_One_Who

JS101 wrote: »

I would deffo steal anyting you can get. Who cares if you get someone to do the dissertation for you, it will still be your degree in your name at the end of the day. Im sure the 1st class honours and well paid / enjoyable job will more than make up for the knowledge that you had some help on your dissertation... especially if you did the rest of the degree yourself. Getting the grade could potentially equate to hundreds of thousands over the course of your career. Whats a few quid to someone to write it?!

I'm sure you would regret it if you try yourself, get no help from the lecturer and he gives you a low grade. Im sure knowledge that your an honest person wont be consolation when youre in the middle of the queue at graduation (in grade attainment order) and on half the salary in a years time.

People duck and dive all the time, its almost expected. One guy on the apprentice got caught blatantly lying on his cv and still won. Do these idiots telling you to be all moral go to bed wearing mittons with a bible every night? No.

Firstly, the quality of these pieces of work are usually not up to standard. They are very often poor quality, with poor quality and few references.

Also, there is no evidence I know of (feel free to provide some) that someone with a first earns any more over a lifetime than someone with a 2.2. Yes, a 2.2 will make getting on to large graduate schemes more difficult, but there plenty of other options out there. Once you are past the initial sifting phase, it comes down to your own personality and interview skills to win the job offer.

olly300

The_One_Who wrote: »

Firstly, the quality of these pieces of work are usually not up to standard. They are very often poor quality, with poor quality and few references.

Also, there is no evidence I know of (feel free to provide some) that someone with a first earns any more over a lifetime than someone with a 2.2. Yes, a 2.2 will make getting on to large graduate schemes more difficult, but there plenty of other options out there. Once you are past the initial sifting phase, it comes down to your own personality and interview skills to win the job offer.

Agreed. I know people with different classes of degree in similar subjects. There earnings are not related to their class of degree it's more due to their personality and attitude to work and risk. Those risk takers with decent personalities earn more.

Plus from this thread and a PM it's clear that the OP didn't need someone to write their dissertation for them. All they needed was someone to bounce ideas off.